Pleasing everyone : mass entertainment in Renaissance London and golden-age Hollywood / Jeffrey Knapp.
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780190634070
- 0190634073
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
- Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
- Theater and society -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century
- Theater and society -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century
- Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
- Théâtre -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Théâtre -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Théâtre et société -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire -- 16e siècle
- Théâtre et société -- Angleterre -- Londres -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Cinéma -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Cinéma -- Aspect social -- États-Unis
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects
- Theater
- Theater and society
- England -- London
- United States
- 1500-1999
- 792.09421/0903 23
- PN2596.L6 K647 2017
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"Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Part 1: The individual and the mass -- 1. Which Moll? -- 2. The real John Doe -- Part 2: Show business -- 3. I must be idle -- 4. One step ahead of my shadow -- Part 3: Junk and art -- 5. Mocked with art -- 6. Throw that junk -- Epilogue: The author of mass entertainment -- Coda: A second look -- Notes -- Works cited.
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